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has obama made an ironclad -- this is important. obama has said, let diplomacy play out. the israelis and the americans know that if they let diplomacy play out, it could reach a point -- the time line could expire during which the israelis have the military capability to conduct a military strike against iran. that's a fact. israel has certain bunker-busting capabilities, but not the ones the americans have. so nine, ten months past where you get into a zone of immunity, then obama -- >> you're not answering my question, though. is it at all responsible for someone who might be the republican nominee and may be president to say about his opponent, if he wins, we'll live in a world where iran has nuclear weapons? is that responsible? >> i actually think it's accurate. i think what obama -- i think what obama is saying -- they're giving me the cue. >> no, no, keep going. >> i think it's accurate in this sense. obama has said in his first year of office, before his first year of office, i'm going to reach out without preconditions. i'm going to outstretch hand. you know, we
has obama made an ironclad -- this is important. obama has said, let diplomacy play out. the israelis and the americans know that if they let diplomacy play out, it could reach a point -- the time line could expire during which the israelis have the military capability to conduct a military strike against iran. that's a fact. israel has certain bunker-busting capabilities, but not the ones the americans have. so nine, ten months past where you get into a zone of immunity, then obama -- >>...
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you or president obama? >> i don't know him in real life and people don't know me with the pranks we play, but most of our dinner table events were involving humor of one kind, most of which can't be repeated on the air. >> occasionally they turn into tom foolery. i would love to find out what his pranks are. you should have seen the look on tag's face when i put all his left shoes on the right side. >> here with us now are columnists for the new york times and cofounder of the "huffington post" and president and editor in chief of the "huffington post" media group. arianna huffington. they are celebrating their first pulitzer prize that severely wounded veterans face after returning home from iraq and afghanistan. congratulations. wow. >> thank you for your work and this past weekend they wrote about the suffering of vets. something that americans need to know about. >> absolutely, but nick and i were talking in the green room about how can we pull afghanistan in the center of the presidential campaign. it'
you or president obama? >> i don't know him in real life and people don't know me with the pranks we play, but most of our dinner table events were involving humor of one kind, most of which can't be repeated on the air. >> occasionally they turn into tom foolery. i would love to find out what his pranks are. you should have seen the look on tag's face when i put all his left shoes on the right side. >> here with us now are columnists for the new york times and cofounder of...
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and he says president obama is vulnerable. he just ticks off the list of what he considers the is not the strongest candidate, neither is president obama. he says president obama is vulnerable. he ticks off the list. he says obama is not going to be as strong as we think. >> you have a ten-question interview with angelina jolie. >> uh-huh. >> and you ask about that leg thing. >> what leg thing? >> it was at -- >> oh, my lord. >> oscars. she poses like that, goes on stage and poses like that. >> what is up that. >> i don't know if you've ever seen mark halp echl rin -- >> she said the interview dress was less attention grabbing. >> she's a movie star. >> i cannot speak to that. >> she looks good in it. >> let's move along and talk about joe klein who says we have a fetish with the second amendment but democrats have just given up fighting this. >> well, he says, intelligent gun reform law, he uses the stand your ground act in florida as an example where florida has been a lavatory for gun laws. he says the democrats are just ab
and he says president obama is vulnerable. he just ticks off the list of what he considers the is not the strongest candidate, neither is president obama. he says president obama is vulnerable. he ticks off the list. he says obama is not going to be as strong as we think. >> you have a ten-question interview with angelina jolie. >> uh-huh. >> and you ask about that leg thing. >> what leg thing? >> it was at -- >> oh, my lord. >> oscars. she poses like...
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obama beat santorum. the poll also shows obama holding a sizeable lead over romney in several key areas including women's issues, international affairs, health care policy. romney, however, leads the president on energy policy, just outside the margin of error. the contest is much more competitive when it comes to jobs and the economy, though. on job creation, the two candidates are in a statistical tie on who can better handle the economy. romney edges out the president there. and on handling of the federal deficit, voters give romney a double digit advantage, 51-38. overall, voters find president obama more likeable than mitt romney by a margin of 64-26%. would you like to talk about that? >> let's start with those numbers right there. likability, harold ford, the old beer question. who you would rather have a beer with. it looks like barack obama is going to have the heinekin thrown his way here. >> that's a big number. >> 20-point lead -- >> 40-point lead. chbls that's a huge gap. >> at any point in t
obama beat santorum. the poll also shows obama holding a sizeable lead over romney in several key areas including women's issues, international affairs, health care policy. romney, however, leads the president on energy policy, just outside the margin of error. the contest is much more competitive when it comes to jobs and the economy, though. on job creation, the two candidates are in a statistical tie on who can better handle the economy. romney edges out the president there. and on handling...
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barack obama. it happened with hillary clinton time and time again where hillary clinton, chris dodd, joe biden, outdebated barack obama in every single debate back in 2008. every single debate. chris dodd, joe biden, hillary clinton just ran circles around him. and people say, well, why can't he -- at some point you just have to say, because he doesn't have his -- i mean, a great of a grasp on the issues as the people he's debating. >> that's sobering but it's true. i still believe it's the professor. >> how can you be president of the united states, mark halperin, and, i mean, and not have these basic answers? >> well, it's more than i think the format than not having the answers. he spent a lot of the evening going after mitt romney for things that he thinks he can win the election on like taxes and medicare. it wasn't like he never responded to it. >> but isn't the format in washington is that you get in a room with someone and you go at it and you try and figure it out? >> that's what we're as
barack obama. it happened with hillary clinton time and time again where hillary clinton, chris dodd, joe biden, outdebated barack obama in every single debate back in 2008. every single debate. chris dodd, joe biden, hillary clinton just ran circles around him. and people say, well, why can't he -- at some point you just have to say, because he doesn't have his -- i mean, a great of a grasp on the issues as the people he's debating. >> that's sobering but it's true. i still believe it's...
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that's a big deal to the obama campaign. they couldn't go down 0-2, to be cliche about this in baseball, they couldn't afford to lose game two of this four-game series of debates. and they didn't lose game two. we can argue, was it a full win for biden? did he give away some points in this because of style because he was a little too amped up on red bull for the first 45 minutes of this thing? maybe. but they certainly -- you can't say he lost the debate. it's all about next tuesday anyway. and biden's job was to make sure he didn't -- i mean, put it this way. had ryan clobbered biden a la what romney did to obama, boy, it would be -- imagine where things would be for the obama campaign. >> no doubt about it. >> reporter: one other quick point. is that republicans, by going after biden i think right now on style, that's a little bit of a tell that they know, you know what? biden did sort of control this debate substantively. >> i think he dominated the debate because he was all -- he was in ryan's face the entire time. the q
that's a big deal to the obama campaign. they couldn't go down 0-2, to be cliche about this in baseball, they couldn't afford to lose game two of this four-game series of debates. and they didn't lose game two. we can argue, was it a full win for biden? did he give away some points in this because of style because he was a little too amped up on red bull for the first 45 minutes of this thing? maybe. but they certainly -- you can't say he lost the debate. it's all about next tuesday anyway. and...
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we called an obama voter. and she said, well, you know, what i really liked about the president is he's not going to raise taxes on anyone. and when you look in the internals in these polls, you're seeing a lot of trust in people. and romney's been working very hard to come up more moderate on economics and say, look, i don't have the tax plan, a lot of the numbers appear that i have, and that is helping, but the specific policies people are voting for are -- they're intuitive intuitive. one thing we do in politics in washington is we say there's a clear and distinct agenda people are voting for. it's not happening from what we can tell. >> ezra klein, thank you very much. chuck todd, thank you as well. we'll see you on "the daily rundown," 9:00 eastern right after "morning joe." >>> coming up, mitt romney's big what-if? could his campaign have done it differently? that's the question asked by "bloomberg's "josh green. "morning joe" is back in a moment. [ male announcer ] free windows 8 training from your son.
we called an obama voter. and she said, well, you know, what i really liked about the president is he's not going to raise taxes on anyone. and when you look in the internals in these polls, you're seeing a lot of trust in people. and romney's been working very hard to come up more moderate on economics and say, look, i don't have the tax plan, a lot of the numbers appear that i have, and that is helping, but the specific policies people are voting for are -- they're intuitive intuitive. one...
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helpful to the obama administration. signed on to obama care. what happened with two of the biggest corporations in the country. too broad of a stroke. we're against regulations when, in fact, guys like me got elected because small business own eers would take me into the office and say look at the osha forms. look at all these other forms i have. and so you sit there and you paint a broad brush and you're giving breaks to the big banks on wall street to get corporate welfare and -- >> that's always the tension. the tension is individual people understand how awful it can be to be yoekd to regulations of no help to a business that grosses a million dollars a year and has five employees whereas those regulations are necessary to manage the conduct of a company with 100,000 employees that actually, you know, dumps polluted water. but they're laid out across american business and they don't have an equal impact. they impact those who can least afford to handle them and that's why regulation is a problem. it's less of a problem for big business just
helpful to the obama administration. signed on to obama care. what happened with two of the biggest corporations in the country. too broad of a stroke. we're against regulations when, in fact, guys like me got elected because small business own eers would take me into the office and say look at the osha forms. look at all these other forms i have. and so you sit there and you paint a broad brush and you're giving breaks to the big banks on wall street to get corporate welfare and -- >>...
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mitt romney is leading president obama 51%-45%. know that this poll was taken in the days leading up to tuesday night's debate. according to a newm marquette poll, president obama is ahead one point after trailing by 11 points last month. >>> and yesterday on the campaign trail, both candidates tried to gain ground with women voters. take a listen. >> i've got to tell you, we don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now. and when young women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work. that should be a simple question to answer. when governor romney was asked about it, his campaign said we'll get back to you. that shouldn't be a complicated question. equal pay for equal work. i want my daughters paid just like somebody else's sons are paid for the same job. that's straightforward. >> this president has failed america's women. they have suffered in terms of getting jobs. they've suffered in terms of falling into poverty. and as i go
mitt romney is leading president obama 51%-45%. know that this poll was taken in the days leading up to tuesday night's debate. according to a newm marquette poll, president obama is ahead one point after trailing by 11 points last month. >>> and yesterday on the campaign trail, both candidates tried to gain ground with women voters. take a listen. >> i've got to tell you, we don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn...
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what obama knows now. there is a great interview with him released this morning with michael scherrer. he talked about things he did wrong. >> what communication. >> that's part of it. what michael's story says is we thought he was a man of words. turns out he's a man of deeds. he can't use the words to explain the deeds he's done. we have a great story. >> what does that mean? >> something like michael grunwald's book, the new deal. he talks about the stimulus changed things in many ways for the better that will be around generations hence. money for solar, new forms of energy, race to the top. all of these things and the president has been unable to actually explain it and talk about why it's something that is good and beneficial. when he talks about miscommunication or bad communication he's saying, look, there are things that voters should know about what the administration has done that i have been unable to explain. >> so it is. >> of all politicians that run into trouble they say it's a communicatio
what obama knows now. there is a great interview with him released this morning with michael scherrer. he talked about things he did wrong. >> what communication. >> that's part of it. what michael's story says is we thought he was a man of words. turns out he's a man of deeds. he can't use the words to explain the deeds he's done. we have a great story. >> what does that mean? >> something like michael grunwald's book, the new deal. he talks about the stimulus changed...
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president obama or mitt romney? >> i think both. >> you make the call. >> man. >> they play a lot of country music at mitt romney events. >> they do? >> yeah. >> that doesn't mean he could even tell you who hank williams is. >> does he listen to country music? >> and eats pork rinds. i don't know. >> at his $12 million la jolla estate. >> there he goes again. parroting "the new york times." unbelievable. >> willie is getting a stream of emails as is halperin talking about that article i guess. >> yes. >> i'm sure i'll stand corrected if i see it. >> october 10, 2004. >> it's all proportionality. >> pattern and practice. >>> last night, steven colbert took up the wisconsin recall election. he wanted to celebrate, abobig time. ran into trouble, though because of the unions guys on his crew. let's watch. >> i think this is a repudiation of big unions, number one. big labor. >> the unions knew they were losing after 2010. they have thrown everything into this, and they are losing. >> this shows the irrelevance of unions
president obama or mitt romney? >> i think both. >> you make the call. >> man. >> they play a lot of country music at mitt romney events. >> they do? >> yeah. >> that doesn't mean he could even tell you who hank williams is. >> does he listen to country music? >> and eats pork rinds. i don't know. >> at his $12 million la jolla estate. >> there he goes again. parroting "the new york times." unbelievable. >> willie...
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did support president obama in 2008. played one song and one song only, born free, and then he left. it was part of the deal. >> you notice how he holds the microphone? >> it's a low pinch. >> continue your story. >> he said you going to take care of michigan? >> yes. >> you going to take care of detroit? >> yes. okay, i'll play one song and go. >> who did the motor city madman support? ron paul probably. newt or ron paul. >> natural police. >> you really need the eminem vote. >> hey, do you have any video? >> i'm so glad you asked. >> haven't seen that in a while. so this is a waiter -- oh, serving a table. >> oh, i hate it when that happened. a guy walks up, he says he was nudged in the back. >> right behind him. the woman behind him a little shove in the small of his back. >> she's miles behind him. >> that's just bad waiterring. >> yeah, that's just bad waiterring. >> that's horrible. >> i'm glad you brought that up. roll the tape. >> i love that guy! >> she's constantly getting it from behind. >> she's getting that
did support president obama in 2008. played one song and one song only, born free, and then he left. it was part of the deal. >> you notice how he holds the microphone? >> it's a low pinch. >> continue your story. >> he said you going to take care of michigan? >> yes. >> you going to take care of detroit? >> yes. okay, i'll play one song and go. >> who did the motor city madman support? ron paul probably. newt or ron paul. >> natural police....
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barack obama was right about it. and as president, he brought us home from that war honorably and decently. not an easy thing to do. >> so the aim time line george w. bush had. let me ask you -- >> come on. do you think that's a proud record george bush had? >> no, it's not. >> what's wrong with pointing that out in. >> are you going to let me talk? this is so sad, david. let's talk about afghanistan. >> yeah. >> are you guys glad that barack obama tripled the number of troops in afghanistan, which we all opposed around this table, and kept american troops there fighting and dying after we all knew -- >> yet again -- yet again -- here. if i can answer the question. barack obama comes into office. we're at war in afghanistan. it is a mess. and you're faced with all kinds of horrendous problems. we may leave in 2014, and you may find, as dexter filkins in his report in "the new yorker" said a civil war that follows. there could be horrendous tragedy there. no one is saying -- and certainly not in this magazine -- i don
barack obama was right about it. and as president, he brought us home from that war honorably and decently. not an easy thing to do. >> so the aim time line george w. bush had. let me ask you -- >> come on. do you think that's a proud record george bush had? >> no, it's not. >> what's wrong with pointing that out in. >> are you going to let me talk? this is so sad, david. let's talk about afghanistan. >> yeah. >> are you guys glad that barack obama...
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but back to president obama and his evolution on this. john heilemann, it does seem, and mike allen brought up joe biden, that perhaps he had aggrandized his views and the situation. i'm not even sure that's fair. wasn't joe biden asked about it? >> he was. >> and wasn't secretary duncan asked about it? what happens when you're asked a question and you're an honest broker on issues? i mean, you tell the truth about how you feel, correct? >> i think that's -- you know, look, there are a lot of ways that vice president biden could have answered the question. >> what are the other ways that would have not created a problem like everyone is reporting? >> well, i think he could have probably found a way to not come down quite as much in the -- he actually still i think believes that he did not in fact express support for gay marriage as a legal matter. i think he was just -- the words he used were i'm comfortable with them. and he didn't go quite so far as to endorsing a legal position. but i think, mike, that the core issue that mike is getti
but back to president obama and his evolution on this. john heilemann, it does seem, and mike allen brought up joe biden, that perhaps he had aggrandized his views and the situation. i'm not even sure that's fair. wasn't joe biden asked about it? >> he was. >> and wasn't secretary duncan asked about it? what happens when you're asked a question and you're an honest broker on issues? i mean, you tell the truth about how you feel, correct? >> i think that's -- you know, look,...
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obama's top people. why don't you do what schumer says, the millionaire tax deal. >> yes. >> just talking politics, that makes sense. we can't raise taxes. we're in a recession. they were all jack kemp. i hear everybody go oh, he had to raise the taxes because it was good. they didn't want to raise taxes. by the way, anybody that talked to them knows that's the reality. i mean that line is just a bunch of malarkey they put out there. lawrence, i still don't think -- >> i think what he said was true. i disagree with that. >> well, obama's people weren't saying that at the time. they were saying they couldn't raise taxes on anybody because the recession is bad, behind the scenes. you've talked about how republicans use the tax card so well. do you really believe that this president and democrats are going to allow the -- i call them obama tax cuts, to expire at the end of this year? >> we will show this little piece of video tape on january 2nd when we go off the cliff. yeah. i should have brought you one
obama's top people. why don't you do what schumer says, the millionaire tax deal. >> yes. >> just talking politics, that makes sense. we can't raise taxes. we're in a recession. they were all jack kemp. i hear everybody go oh, he had to raise the taxes because it was good. they didn't want to raise taxes. by the way, anybody that talked to them knows that's the reality. i mean that line is just a bunch of malarkey they put out there. lawrence, i still don't think -- >> i think...
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shouldn't you feel that way now that he's president obama? you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. and to heal the planet. my promise is to help you and your family. >> there was some great -- great line, sam stein. one of the great lines we just heard it which was about stopping the rising of the oceans but i'm going to help you. which was great. >> the theme of the night too. >> set up a great contrast. but there were also some pretty well-delivered lines in this speech. >> yeah. i thought the whole speech -- i thought the whole night was the microcosm of the romney campaign at large you have this well produced show, going well, romney sort of working through it, he's not exactly the most thrilling candidate. marco rubio was a much more eloquent speaker and then one gaffe or misstep that distracts. it was like the campaign for him so far. he had great lines. i thought that line w
shouldn't you feel that way now that he's president obama? you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. and to heal the planet. my promise is to help you and your family. >> there was some great -- great line, sam stein. one of the great lines we just heard it which was about stopping the rising of the oceans but i'm going to help...
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president obama didn't. in this debate, president obama had a strategy. you could see it all throughout the debate. he was much more engaged, focused and energetic. also he was trying to do specific things and he largely got those things done. and romney was mostly defensive and reactive. to mark's point about him -- the president being his head, i thought the reason this format wouldn't work well for him was because of their interacting with the audience. it turned out he said he doesn't like to be challenged directly. when he is challenged directly, he does tend to get a little rattled. >> i also think the physical nature of the setting, it worked better for romney last time because it was much more controlled. he's a man who likes everything to be controlled and in place. and this was less so with candy and the audience and then the president and the moving around the stage. willie, would you agree with that? >> yeah, just on the style and format. he was on the brink, i thought, of a couple times of an al gore moment where he started walking at the pre
president obama didn't. in this debate, president obama had a strategy. you could see it all throughout the debate. he was much more engaged, focused and energetic. also he was trying to do specific things and he largely got those things done. and romney was mostly defensive and reactive. to mark's point about him -- the president being his head, i thought the reason this format wouldn't work well for him was because of their interacting with the audience. it turned out he said he doesn't like...
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obama and dmitry medvedev. is it important, does it change our relationship with russia, the personal relationship between these guys, or the lack thereof with putin? >> well, i think that, you know, there's no question but that in diplomacy, that personal relationships matter a lot. and i think, you know, the president has established good personal relationships with some world leaders, and established less good personal relationships with others. and so, you know, this is a really important strategic relationship, and the president is going to make progress, he's going to have to do better. i'm not blaming him, but he's going to have to make that -- there's got to be some chemistry there if he's going to exercise the kind of leverage to get things done in the modern world. >> we heard joe biden speak the other day to the conference of mares and he said international relations is basically just personal relationships. and he's -- joe biden has got them going back decades. the president is still meeting a lot o
obama and dmitry medvedev. is it important, does it change our relationship with russia, the personal relationship between these guys, or the lack thereof with putin? >> well, i think that, you know, there's no question but that in diplomacy, that personal relationships matter a lot. and i think, you know, the president has established good personal relationships with some world leaders, and established less good personal relationships with others. and so, you know, this is a really...
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what bush himself said about obama's election and what mccain said about obama's election. >> they were two of the most graceful moments in american politics. >> i totally agree. >> john mccain's concession speech -- >> he was the leader of the republican party at that moment and it was one of the most graceful concession speeches i think in modern times. >> i agree with that. that's not all of the republican party and it's not the right wing of the republican party, the hard right. i think there's a difference. >> i could show you if i could actually purchase them, for six years, george w. bush in various nazi uniforms sold by our friends on the upper west side for six years. >> i didn't see one and i live on the upper west side. not one nazi uniform. >> you didn't go out on sunday afternoons. >> yeah, i do. >> no, i did. everywhere and bush hated the constitution and bush was trashing the constitution and bush should be up for war crimes. it was a constant, constant droning that i just shrugged my shoulders and said -- >> wait. there -- during the bush administration, there were legit
what bush himself said about obama's election and what mccain said about obama's election. >> they were two of the most graceful moments in american politics. >> i totally agree. >> john mccain's concession speech -- >> he was the leader of the republican party at that moment and it was one of the most graceful concession speeches i think in modern times. >> i agree with that. that's not all of the republican party and it's not the right wing of the republican...
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barack obama wasn't the only person who won. i'm not saying this to denigrate the president or elevate the president. i'm explaining the negotiations right here. you get 80% -- i got 80%, you know, when i ran in, you know -- actually ran unopposed in '98. in '9d6 i got 83%. i didn't give a damn what they said. they didn't call and say i got elected, joe, with 52% of the vote, you've got to go with me. i said that's great, mr. president, i got 80%. >> he probably did do that because he tried to make social security reform the centerpiece. >> right, and it didn't work. >> republicans didn't support it. >> it didn't work. david? >> joe, isn't one of the big questions here what boehner ultimately does is a legislative strategy, not just trying to deal with folks who won in their districts and who are opposed to taxes, but does he put a bill on the floor that he knows he has to rely on heavily on democrats to pass? is he willing to take that step, and what happens to me? >> by the way, david, i want to underline the fact, i can't say
barack obama wasn't the only person who won. i'm not saying this to denigrate the president or elevate the president. i'm explaining the negotiations right here. you get 80% -- i got 80%, you know, when i ran in, you know -- actually ran unopposed in '98. in '9d6 i got 83%. i didn't give a damn what they said. they didn't call and say i got elected, joe, with 52% of the vote, you've got to go with me. i said that's great, mr. president, i got 80%. >> he probably did do that because he...
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in florida, obama, 48. romney, 47. virginia, romney, 48%. obama, 47%. that's a three-point reversal from a week ago. we also have some "new york times"/cbs polls out that also show this race being pretty darn close. in colorado, mitt romney up by 1 percentage point. last month that was flipped. in virginia, they've got the president's lead actually growing slightly. he's up by five points there. i'm not sure about that. in wisconsin, the candidates are within the margin of error. after the president lost a point. chuck, again, they're your polls. and then we'll go to david to get his reaction. talk about it. what's your takeaway? >> well, i want to point out a couple things. number one, i feel like, look. we are at where we were before the conventions. when you really think about it. all of these numbers, right, you could sit there and say, you know, is the president narrowly ahead here? is romney narrowly ahead there? this is the conversation we were having about these swing states before both conventions. so it's almost as if everything has been erase
in florida, obama, 48. romney, 47. virginia, romney, 48%. obama, 47%. that's a three-point reversal from a week ago. we also have some "new york times"/cbs polls out that also show this race being pretty darn close. in colorado, mitt romney up by 1 percentage point. last month that was flipped. in virginia, they've got the president's lead actually growing slightly. he's up by five points there. i'm not sure about that. in wisconsin, the candidates are within the margin of error....
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do you think paul ryan talking about president obama's foreign policy will move people from obama to romney? >> i'm not -- i don't think paul ryan, it matters very much. but i do twhink have a sequence of things that are going to happen here and these ling up the first two things. mitt romney has a paramount goal. he must get past the debate and still have life in this campaign. if he can get through the first debate and convince republicans hi he's still in the race, not abandon him as a lost cause, have a sense that he's still in the game, he then has some options how to spend the last 35 days of the campaign. on foreign policy, the economy, prosecuting the president. this all dpebepends on wednesda night. if he walks out with the world cob cluned that this race is over, the conservatives, the money, you're bob dole, we're going to vote on the house and senate. he's got to get past that first. >>> just before the two candidates scare off in the debate. abc news poll, 49% of likely voters say they would vote for president obama and 47% say they would vote for mitt romney. those numb
do you think paul ryan talking about president obama's foreign policy will move people from obama to romney? >> i'm not -- i don't think paul ryan, it matters very much. but i do twhink have a sequence of things that are going to happen here and these ling up the first two things. mitt romney has a paramount goal. he must get past the debate and still have life in this campaign. if he can get through the first debate and convince republicans hi he's still in the race, not abandon him as a...
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the defeat of barack hussein obama. the ads would do what john mccain would not let us do in going after the president's relationship with reverend wright. the proposal read, the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand the influence for the first time. now the times report says the plan was just one of several commissioned being considered. meaning he asked for ideas to consider by billionaire joe rickets. it continues to report saying the proposal was presented last week in chicago to associates and family members of mr. rickets. the 54-page proposal was bound with color photographs indicating -- this is the times edtorial -- that it's for beyond a discussion. they have contacted larry elder, a black radio host in los angeles about serving as a spokesman. and it calls for a group of black leaders. they have registered a domain name, character matters. rickets said he added the idea saying it was a suggestion for a possible direction to take. the president of the super pac says he was not the funder of the
the defeat of barack hussein obama. the ads would do what john mccain would not let us do in going after the president's relationship with reverend wright. the proposal read, the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand the influence for the first time. now the times report says the plan was just one of several commissioned being considered. meaning he asked for ideas to consider by billionaire joe rickets. it continues to report saying the proposal was presented last week in...
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it's what president obama was supposed to do. it's what the obama folks r gunning for. >> this is up nine points on who can do the best on the economy. you have written a piece about private equity. it's interesting. this is what you wrote. david versus goliath problem. it's impossible to separate attacks on romney's private equity career from attacks on private equity. the industry is at a considerable financial disadvantage when it comes to defending itself. you can't match the level of spending of a presidential campaign. it has a david and goliath problem. the response to romney's ad, hey, that happened two years after i left. he's not going to defend private equity. >> a lot of people have the misimpression we have mitt romney up there, he's our guy. he's going to defend us. he's going to defend him. >> did he give back any money he made? >> no. no, no, no, no. we think of them as rich mitt romneys and they have a lot of money, but they have a tough time defending themselves. you have a $1 billion presidential campaign payin
it's what president obama was supposed to do. it's what the obama folks r gunning for. >> this is up nine points on who can do the best on the economy. you have written a piece about private equity. it's interesting. this is what you wrote. david versus goliath problem. it's impossible to separate attacks on romney's private equity career from attacks on private equity. the industry is at a considerable financial disadvantage when it comes to defending itself. you can't match the level of...
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sam said he can't find somebody -- >> it's not even an obama campaign ad. >> it's not an obama ad. i brought up bill burton's name. everybody know who bill is. bill could not be any tighter than you and the white house. >> can i get you on the record that you're perfectly fine with an ad republicans said is untrue? >> i'm not standing here defending an ad. you are or saying -- >> you're playing upon shus pilot saying my hands are clean. i can -- i can do nothing on this ad that suggests mitt romney killed my wife. >> i love you seem to be adding to the discourse in our political debate labeling me pontius pilot. >> i'm not accusing you of killing anybody. >> i think that it is -- it is not surprising that you guys have decided there's differences in gradations of -- >> no. here's -- >> robert -- >> don't put words in my mouth. you asked me and i told you. i'm not defending mitt romney's ad. >> but let's play this out. is the ad untrue? >> i'm going to actually check and see. >> is there any truth to the charge that we are getting rid of work requirement for welfare coverage? >> no.
sam said he can't find somebody -- >> it's not even an obama campaign ad. >> it's not an obama ad. i brought up bill burton's name. everybody know who bill is. bill could not be any tighter than you and the white house. >> can i get you on the record that you're perfectly fine with an ad republicans said is untrue? >> i'm not standing here defending an ad. you are or saying -- >> you're playing upon shus pilot saying my hands are clean. i can -- i can do nothing on...
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barack obama is, you know, i attack george bush for eight years for spending too much, barack obama in four years is probably going to catch up with george w. bush. $5 trillion added to the national debt over the past four years. let's have a debate on the debt. >> and tax policy is a huge part of this. we've talked ability medicare but the question of, do you reform the tax code, do you eliminate deductions? the ryan plan does a lot with mortgage interest, that sort of thing. these are fundamental questions and it's not something that's going to get, i think, a very intellectually rich debate. >> it seems to me, though, mark halperin, mitt romney's going to have to fill in the blanks on his tax plan. where is he going to pay for these tax cuts? >> i don't think he intends to and i don't know he'll have to. they will try to turn back to talking about the president. >> they're talking about getting rid of certain deductions. >> he thinks they're going to cost nothing. >> neither ryan or romney have specified what deductions they would limit or cut back and romney told me when i intervie
barack obama is, you know, i attack george bush for eight years for spending too much, barack obama in four years is probably going to catch up with george w. bush. $5 trillion added to the national debt over the past four years. let's have a debate on the debt. >> and tax policy is a huge part of this. we've talked ability medicare but the question of, do you reform the tax code, do you eliminate deductions? the ryan plan does a lot with mortgage interest, that sort of thing. these are...
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obama, this won't matter. his great progressive gamble will have paid off. >> it was balanced. >> i don't know what to think. >> subtly fought. >> it's black or it's white. >> you know what, it sang, like the beatles. it was beautiful. i guess "the wall street journal," again, richard, a bit more nuanced and balanced than i expected. >> interesting, in turn, they seem to be thinking the gamble will pay off. i don't remember them complaining too much about president bush's re-election campaign style in 2004, but maybe that's just a trick of memory. >> you talked about mandate. you used the word "mandate." one of the things that concerns me is that this race is going to be so close at the end that both sides -- because democrats, harry reid's saying it on the democratic side. republicans are going to be saying it on the house side. that both sides are going to say, whoever wins, you don't have a mandate. if mitt romney thinks he's going to get democrats to magically work with him in the senate and the house, he'
obama, this won't matter. his great progressive gamble will have paid off. >> it was balanced. >> i don't know what to think. >> subtly fought. >> it's black or it's white. >> you know what, it sang, like the beatles. it was beautiful. i guess "the wall street journal," again, richard, a bit more nuanced and balanced than i expected. >> interesting, in turn, they seem to be thinking the gamble will pay off. i don't remember them complaining too much...